Accident report - PDA's can restrict emergency exit

Here's an accident report from a mid-air in which the cabling between
canopy-frame mounted equipment and the panel may have played a role.
Unfortunately, the pilot did not survive.
http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/Data/unfallbericht-pda.pdf
The accident happened in the UK, the link is copied from the DG monthly
newsletter.

Herb


Ramy wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/yzfpzb

With the increase of use of gizmos in the cockpit I think it is worth
warning the fliying community of this potential deadly mistake,
especially with glare shield instalations of instruments such as TPAS.
I almost fell trap to it myself when considered wiring my glare shield
installed TPAS to the glider battery. Make sure you can jettison your
canopy and bail out easily.

Be careful out there,

Ramy

Herb, if you had followed the link in the first post in this thread,
you would have seen that you were about to link to the exact same
accident report.


Dan

Herb wrote:

Here's an accident report from a mid-air in which the cabling between
canopy-frame mounted equipment and the panel may have played a role.
Unfortunately, the pilot did not survive.
http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/Data/unfallbericht-pda.pdf
The accident happened in the UK, the link is copied from the DG monthly
newsletter.

Herb


Ramy wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/yzfpzb

With the increase of use of gizmos in the cockpit I think it is worth
warning the fliying community of this potential deadly mistake,
especially with glare shield instalations of instruments such as TPAS.
I almost fell trap to it myself when considered wiring my glare shield
installed TPAS to the glider battery. Make sure you can jettison your
canopy and bail out easily.

Be careful out there,

Ramy